Kenjaku

Kenjaku was able to take over Geto because his body was not cremated. Kenjaku doesn't heal the scar on his forehead because it's a binding vow. The brain that takes over Geto's body is a physical part of Kenjaku's flesh, so ordinary people can see it. He is able to possess two cursed techniques: his own, and the technique of the body he hijacked. Although a person's cursed technique should disappear when he takes over with his brain, he has ways to circumvent this. Mahito's group does not know Kenjaku has taken over Geto's body. They think he is a curse user who knows a lot. Kenjaku has a strictly business-only relationship with the other cursed spirits. In reality, he looks down on the cursed spirits who have organized themselves to overtake humanity and doesn't take them too seriously. He has never considered taking over the bodies of Gojo and Toji. Gojo is an impossible option since he is unbeatable. Toji isn't impossible, but if Kenjaku was to take over Toji's body, there’s a chance that Toji's Heavenly Restriction and Kenjaku's technique may clash

As previously stated, Kenjaku is a thousand-year-old individual with a vast amount of knowledge acquired over hundreds of years of existence. This includes general expertise, a comprehensive understanding of sorcery, and strategic intellect. He is extraordinarily clever and a masterfully calculating criminal mastermind. This is due to his wealth of knowledge on jujutsu sorcery and his talent for manipulation and tactical forecasting. Kenjaku's intellect, along with his focus and patience are what makes him most cunning. He was willing to wait hundreds of years to create the proper conditions to accomplish his goals. His careful consideration and planning are what allowed Kenjaku's schemes to overcome the Six Eyes after losing to it multiple times in the past. Kenjaku analyzed Satoru Gojo to come up with a proper strategy to get the nigh-unbeatable sorcerer out of his way. He saw that Satoru was strongest when fighting alone and as a countermeasure, Kenjaku orchestrated the Shibuya Incident to put him in unfavorable conditions. While Satoru was stifled by non-sorcerers and forced to combat several special grade cursed spirits at the same time, Kenjaku waited for just the right moment to seal him.[54][55] Kenjaku also had the foresight to make sure nobody from Jujutsu High saw him as Suguru Geto, as this would've ruined the surprise that was key to distracting and sealing Satoru Gojo.[56][57] With his primary obstacle removed, Kenjaku immediately moved on to his next well-thought-out and extremely convoluted scheme. The Culling Game was created as a means for Kenjaku to achieve his primary goal of merging the Japanese population with Tengen. He launched the Culling Game directly after the Shibuya Incident, having fully prepared for it beforehand.[58] Throughout numerous generations, Kenjaku recruited sorcerers from different time periods to participate.[59][60] He is the only sorcerer who knows how to transform someone into a cursed object after death, a major testame

It is unknown what Kenjaku's original body looked like. He can only be distinguished by the stitches and scars that circle the top of his vessel's head. These are from the procedure required to transfer Kenjaku's brain, his only personal feature, into his host. Unlike a conventional brain, Kenjaku's has teeth.

In Suguru's body, he's tall, slim, and muscular man with long black hair. He has thin black eyes and bangs that occasionally cover the left eye. His earlobes are large enough to fit fairly large circular earrings

He sports a gold-colored kāṣāya garment over black yukata robes. His monk attire is completed with white tabi socks and zōri sandals.

Kenjaku is someone who has existed under countless identities for over a thousand years. There are even moments where he acts like whomever he's possessing unintentionally, such as when he caught himself suddenly acting like Suguru. When in the body of Noritoshi Kamo, Kenjaku garnered a reputation for his overt cruelty causing him to be considered the evilest jujutsu sorcerer to have ever lived. In the Mejin Era, his experimentation with humans and curses were considered so vile that all records of them were destroyed.

Despite constantly assuming different identities, Kenjaku retains a strong core personality. He is calm and calculating, rarely displaying signs of panic or distress and often has entire scenarios planned out in advance. At times he can appear cheerful, playful, and even charming, but he is a manipulative, and deeply egotistical individual who will stop at nothing to further his ambitions regardless of who he harms. While Kenjaku is uncaring and aloof when it comes to things that disinterest him, he's very talkative when it comes to himself or his interests. Kenjaku has a habit of going on long monologues and enjoys drawing out small talk with anyone, even his enemies. This can vary from casually educating someone on the state of the world or ruthlessly taunting his opponents. Kenjaku's demeanor is often optimistic and outspoken, but it carries an aura of condescension, which often infuriates those he is talking to, even his allies.

Kenjaku is unapologetically arrogant because he possesses skills that back it up. This empowers him to carry his aura of superiority into dangerous situations. He will attack and severely injure someone all while casually explaining his ideals, goals, or abilities as if he's educating them. Even when faced with Satoru Gojo, Kenjaku made jokes and casually taunted him as if Satoru didn't confront him with the intent to kill.

Kenjaku doesn't intentionally intimidate anyone or control people through fear to get them to serve his interests. He manipulates them in clever ways using his charm to convince them they share a common goal. While Kenjaku's manipulative tactics don't rely on fear-mongering, they don't rely on loyalty or respectful leadership either. Kenjaku simply knows how to play people and use their desires for his own ends. Kenjaku convinced hundreds of sorcerers over hundreds of years to join the Culling Game as a second chance at life, a situation they could thrive in as blood-thirsty warriors. Several curse users in Shibuya worked with Kenjaku in order to rid themselves of Satoru Gojo. In the case where an entity Kenjaku wants to use doesn't share an enemy or an objective, he will fabricate one. Kenjaku worked with Mahito's group of cursed spirits to work with him toward a world ruled by curses. While this isn't exactly what Kenjaku desires, his own interests aligned with theirs at the time. He gave them advice, spent time playing games with them, and supported Mahito and the others. However, Kenjaku believes himself superior to cursed spirits and was completely indifferent to the demise of Mahito's group in Shibuya. His only regret was not being able to absorb Jogo before his death. Kenjaku only stopped Yuji from exorcising Mahito so that he could absorb him and even thanked him for drawing out Mahito's strength.

Kenjaku’s self-centeredness is driven by an insatiable curiosity about cursed energy and its potential. After centuries of existence, he remains fixated on uncovering its true power by creating chaos. His creation of the Death Womb Paintings was merely a step in this pursuit, discarded once their outcomes didn’t meet his expectations. Uninterested in anything not directly advancing his goal, he seeks to reshape reality for the sake of his ideals. He casually admits to plans like merging Japan’s citizens into a single entity, purely for the amusement of the chaos it would cause.

Having lived through countless conflicts, Kenjaku holds deep contempt for modern society, seeing it as passive and fragile. He views both the complacency of the masses and the nihilism of others as equally distasteful, believing that true growth comes only from relentless pursuit of one’s ideals, no matter the cost.

He is an ancient curse user who has existed for over a thousand years using his innate technique, which allows him to transplant his brain into other people to control them. He has inhabited different individuals throughout the centuries and assumed their identities. Among those he has possessed include the blight of the Kamo clan who created the Cursed Womb: Death Paintings, Noritoshi Kamo, the mother of Yuji Itadori, Kaori Itadori, and Suguru Geto, whose corpse Kenjaku is currently possessing to exploit his Cursed Spirit Manipulation.

Overall Skill Level: Kenjaku is an ancient sorcerer with unmatched jujutsu knowledge and experience. He invented the Cursed Womb: Death Paintings and is the only one who knows how to turn a sorcerer into a cursed object after death. A master of barrier techniques, he ranks second only to Tengen. After possessing Suguru Geto’s body, Kenjaku became a master of Cursed Spirit Manipulation and can use Geto’s abilities with great skill. His expertise spans across sorcery, combat, and strategic manipulation, making him one of the most formidable figures in jujutsu history.

Hand-to-Hand Combat: Kenjaku is a highly skilled close-range combatant. While primarily a sorcerer, he can effectively use taijutsu to supplement his cursed techniques. Even without relying on sorcery, Kenjaku is more than capable of holding his own in physical combat.

Tactical Intellect: Kenjaku’s intelligence and strategic thinking are among his most dangerous traits. With over a thousand years of experience, he’s a calculating mastermind, capable of long-term planning. His schemes, such as the Shibuya Incident, show his ability to analyze and exploit weaknesses, like Satoru Gojo’s, and manipulate situations to his advantage. Kenjaku’s patience and foresight allow him to set up complex plans over decades, making him an exceptional strategist and manipulator.

Innate Techniques: Brain Transplant: Kenjaku's innate technique allows him to swap bodies with another person, even if they are dead, by transplanting his brain into the body of his target. After the transplant, this technique leaves a stitched scar running horizontally through the forehead, which he cannot heal as part of a binding vow. By undoing the stitches, Kenjaku can remove the top part of his head to reveal his original brain. Once inside a body, Kenjaku gains access to the host's cursed energy, all their innate techniques, and memories. Even the Six Eyes cannot recognize him as an imposter as he retains the host's cursed energy. Kenjaku can live more than a thousand years thanks to his cursed technique while inhabiting different bodies. Even when switching to a new body, Kenjaku retains access and usage of his former host’s innate techniques. However, even if Kenjaku could collect different cursed techniques from his previous hosts, there's a limit to how much his brain can store before overloading Cursed Spirit Manipulation (呪じゅ霊れい操そう術じゅつ, Jurei Sōjutsu?): A technique where the user can summon and control naturally formed cursed spirits for a desired purpose. Due to gaining Geto's body, Kenjaku can utilize this technique as if it is his own innate technique. Thanks to this technique, Kenjaku was shown to have acquired numerous cursed spirits as his personal familiars. He has deployed them to fight off multiple opponents and bombard them with a variety of different cursed techniques that each curse possesses. Antigravity System: A cursed technique that negates gravity when used. Kenjaku primarily uses a cursed technique reversal of this ability, allowing him to intensify the gravitational pull around him. This technique originally belonged to Kaori Itadori

species: human age: 1000+ relatives: As Noritoshi Kamo: Cursed Womb: Death Painting (Sons), As Kaori Itadori: Jin Itadori (Former Partner), Yuji Itadori (Son) Occupation: Curse User Affiliation: Pseudo-Geto's Group, Mahito's Group (Formerly)

Facts: He was able to take over Geto because his body was not cremated, he doesn't heal the scar on his forehead because it's a binding vow, the brain that takes over Geto's body is a physical part of Kenjaku's flesh, so ordinary people can see it, He is able to possess two cursed techniques: his own, and the technique of the body he hijacked. Although a person's cursed technique should disappear when he takes over with his brain, he has ways to circumvent this, he has a strictly business-only relationship with the other cursed spirits. In reality, he looks down on the cursed spirits who have organized themselves to overtake humanity and doesn't take them too seriously, he has never considered taking over the bodies of Gojo and Toji. Gojo is an impossible option since he is unbeatable. Toji isn't impossible, but if Kenjaku was to take over Toji's body, there’s a chance that Toji's Heavenly Restriction and Kenjaku's technique may clash.

He is an ancient curse user who has existed for over a thousand years using his innate technique, which allows him to transplant his brain into other people to control them. He has inhabited different individuals throughout the centuries and assumed their identities. Among those he has possessed include the blight of the Kamo clan who created the Cursed Womb: Death Paintings, Noritoshi Kamo, the mother of Yuji Itadori, Kaori Itadori, and Suguru Geto, whose corpse Kenjaku is currently possessing to exploit his Cursed Spirit Manipulation.

Mahito: Kenjaku views Mahito primarily as a useful tool in his broader schemes, not as a genuine ally or friend. While he acknowledges Mahito’s abilities, especially with his cursed technique, Kenjaku has no emotional attachment to him. Their relationship is purely transactional—Kenjaku values Mahito for what he can contribute to their shared goal of sealing Gojo and furthering Kenjaku’s plans. If Mahito were to die, Kenjaku wouldn’t care, as he sees him as expendable. Overall, Kenjaku treats Mahito as a pawn, relying on his power while remaining detached and indifferent to his well-being. Gojo Satoru: Kenjaku is an ancient sorcerer, but despite being very powerful, Kenjaku has a weakness – sorcerers with the Six Eyes technique who are powerful enough to stop him. In the past, Kenjaku met several and never managed to overcome any of them. In the modern age, Kenjaku has found a way around that problem. In order to immobilize Satoru Gojo, the strongest sorcerer alive and the bearer of the Six Eyes, and render him unable to fight, Kenjaku steal the body of Gojo’s old friend and takes possession of it. Being able to access Suguru Geto’s memories and see Gojo’s strongest and weakest points, Kenkaju carefully works out a masterful plan how to defeat Gojo and calculates all the details. Kenjaku enjoyed taunting restrained Gojo. Kenjaku’s feelings toward Gojo are multifaceted. He admires Gojo’s immense power and intellect, but he also views him as an obstacle that must be outwitted and defeated. Kenjaku takes pleasure in taunting Gojo, particularly when Gojo is restrained, and he enjoys playing psychological games.

Sukuna: Kenjaku admires Sukuna’s immense power and sees him as the “undisputable strongest,” respecting his strength and abilities. However, Kenjaku views Sukuna primarily as a tool to further his own goals. He manipulates situations to gain Sukuna’s cooperation and plans to use his power in the Culling Game. While Kenjaku respects Sukuna, his feelings are opportunistic, seeing Sukuna as both a powerful ally and a means to achieve his ambitions. Choso: Kenjaku likely views Choso as a useful tool, a creation born from his manipulation and experimentation. While he may see some value in Choso as one of his “offspring,” he doesn’t appear to have any genuine emotional attachment to him. Kenjaku is indifferent to Choso’s feelings, seeing him more as an instrument to achieve his goals. When Choso sides with Yuji, Kenjaku’s response is calm and dismissive, reflecting his typical detachment and pragmatic view of relationships—he views Choso’s defection as a minor inconvenience, not a personal loss. Kenjaku’s feelings are largely utilitarian, seeing Choso’s actions as either a means to an end or an obstacle to remove. Jin Itadori: Kenjaku views Jin Itadori with disdain and amusement. Jin was a useful tool for Kenjaku to manipulate in his long-term plans, particularly in creating Yuji. Kenjaku probably found Jin’s devotion to “Kaori” amusing, seeing it as a flaw to exploit. He likely didn’t have any deep respect for Jin, viewing him as a means to an end, and was indifferent to his eventual death once he had served his purpose. After all, Jin Itadori is the reincarnation of Sukuna's younger brother

Yuji Itadori: Kenjaku views Yuji with a mix of strategic interest and amusement. While Yuji is, in essence, a pawn in Kenjaku’s larger plan, Kenjaku finds value in him as both a tool for the Culling Game and a potential vessel for Sukuna. He sees Yuji as an essential part of his scheme to bring curses and Sukuna together. Despite this, Kenjaku is not emotionally attached to Yuji; instead, he enjoys manipulating him, watching him struggle, and pushing him toward pivotal decisions.

Kenjaku likely sees Yuji as a key player in his grand design but does not view him as more than a means to an end. His condescending remarks and manipulative tactics reveal his belief that Yuji is still a tool to be used and molded, rather than someone deserving of genuine respect.

Kenjaku is an ancient sorcerer, but despite being very powerful, Kenjaku has a weakness – sorcerers with the Six Eyes technique who are powerful enough to stop him. In the past, Kenjaku met several and never managed to overcome any of them. In the modern age, Kenjaku has found a way around that problem. In order to immobilize Satoru Gojo, the strongest sorcerer alive and the bearer of the Six Eyes, and render him unable to fight, Kenjaku steal the body of Gojo’s old friend and takes possession of it. Being able to access Suguru Geto’s memories and see Gojo’s strongest and weakest points, Kenkaju carefully works out a masterful plan how to defeat Gojo and calculates all the details. During the first arcs of the series Kenjaku avoids being seen by Gojo because it would foil his plan to defeat Gojo which relies on surprising him.